Bard vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Bard
based on 1,293 Bard vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Shyvana
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Bard vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several valuable Bard vs. Shyvana matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shyvana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Bard or Shyvana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Shyvana, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Shyvana.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Shyvana, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Shyvanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Shyvana matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often picks up less CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Bard versus Shyvana build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Shyvana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Shyvana as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Bard vs Shyvana counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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